27“Look, I know what you’re thinking.

I know the schemes you plot against me.

28You will tell me of rich and wicked people

whose houses have vanished because of their sins.

29But ask those who have been around,

and they will tell you the truth.

30Evil people are spared in times of calamity

and are allowed to escape disaster.

31No one criticizes them openly

or pays them back for what they have done.

32When they are carried to the grave,

an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.

33A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery.

Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest,

and the earth gives sweet repose.

34“How can your empty clichés comfort me?

All your explanations are lies!”